ffi-gia 


Duke  University  Libraries 

Amendment  to  th 
Conf  Pam  #260 

DTT0Et.l3DU 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  February  14,  1865.— Or- 
dered to  be  printed. 

[Bj  Mr.  Swan. 


A.MENDMENT 

To  the  Negro  Soldier  Bill. 

1  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 

2  That  the  General-in-Chief  commanding  the  armies  of  the  Con- 

3  federate  States  be  aad  he  is  hereby  invested  with  the  fnll  and 

4  complete  power  to  call  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate 

5  States,  to  perform  any  duty   to  which  he  may  assign  them,  so 

6  many  of  the  able-bodied  slaves  within  tht  Confederate  States, 

7  as  in  his  judgment  the  exigencies  of  the  public  service  may  re- 

8  quire. 

1  Sec.  2.     Be  it  enacted.  That  while  said  slaves  are  so  employ- 

2  ed,  whether  voluntarily  offered   for  service  l)y  their  owners  or 

3  impressed  in  conformity  to  any  existing  or  future  law,  such  com- 

4  pensation.  clothing  and  rations  shall  be  allowed  to  and  for  said 

5  slaves  as  are  allowed,  by  the  Act  approved  February  17,  1864, 
G  and  Acts  amendatory  thereto,  to  increase  the  efficiency  of  the 

7  army  by  the  employment  of  free   negroes  and  slaves  in  certain 

8  cases. 


Digitized  by  tine  Internet  Archive 
in  2010  witii  funding  from 
Duke  University  Libraries 


■  ^JV,' 


http://www.archive.org/details/amendmenttonegro()Oconf 


PeRmalipe* 

pH8.5 


